Reluctant Android is now available for pre-order as an ebook from Amazon and Smashwords. Pre-order means you can order it now for $3.99 and it will be delivered to you on September 1, 2018, the official launch date. Meanwhile you can … Continue reading
Finally, my new site featuring my psi-fi books is up. (www.psifibooks.com). That’s one brick in place for my nascent publishing empire. “Psi-fi” is pronounced the same as “sci-fi” but psi-fi focuses on psychological fiction in a technological world. How is human psychology … Continue reading
I have been wriggling against the sci-fi label since I accidentally wrote my first sci-fi novel a decade ago. I didn’t mean to write sci-fi, but the story had an AI android in it. I don’t even like sci-fi. I’m … Continue reading
This briefing by Nick Bostrom on the dangers of artificial intelligence takes up a serious and legitimate question: Should we be more cautious as we go about trying to improve artificial intelligence? What if an AI became so smart it decided to take … Continue reading
Revenge of the Robots RUR is a play, first produced in 1922, remembered for introducing the word “robot” into the English lexicon. The story is, lifelike robots are manufactured by the millions to be servants and laborers so humans will … Continue reading
This sci-fi adventure gets points for creativity. A small crew from earth investigates an alien ship somewhere out in the Oort cloud. The stimulating questions include, how would you communicate with aliens, and, what are the aliens like? Usually in … Continue reading
Six characters write diaries and letters, along with the transcript of a conversation, all presented in rotation. There are no dramatic scenes in real time, and no plot. Everything is remembered and told from afar through a haze of maudlin emotion. … Continue reading